UAV
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[edit]UAV (plural UAVs)
- (aviation) Initialism of unmanned aerial vehicle or uncrewed aerial vehicle: an aircraft with no onboard pilot, and sometimes completely unpiloted, that is capable of controlled, sustained, level flight.
- 2012 December 1, “An internet of airborne things”, in The Economist[1], volume 405, number 8813, archived from the original on 11 March 2023, page 3 (Technology Quarterly):
- Both groups have recently started testing their first prototypes. Matternet ran a series of successful field tests of its prototype UAVs in the Dominican Republic and Haiti in September, and met local groups to sell the idea.
- 2023 June 3, Vasco Cotovio, Tim Lister, Frederik Pleitgen, William Bonnett and Daria Tarasova, “Exclusive: Inside Ukraine’s secretive drone program”, in CNN[2]:
- Ukrainian and foreign UAV makers rock up early at an open field in the outskirts of Kyiv, to take part in a drone competition organized by the Ministry of Digital Transformation.
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[edit]unmanned aerial vehicle
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[edit]UAV m (plural UAV)
- UAV
- 2024 October 16, Sebastian Shukla, Daria Tarasova-Markina, Victoria Butenko, Frederik Pleitgen, Claudia Otto, “EXCLUSIVO CNN | Dentro de una unidad secreta de drones ucranianos que apunta a territorio ruso”, in CNN en Español[3]:
- Sus miembros se autodenominan Unidad de UAV de Largo Alcance. […] “Por supuesto, podemos enviar los UAV (vehículos aéreos no tripulados), y hemos destruido muchos lugares. Pero no es suficiente”, afirma Vector.
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